Killed Collection (page 2)

United States Navy - Douglas A3D-2P Skywarrior 144847 (msn 12093, unit code PP, call-sign 933 ), of VCP-63 144847, while flying with VAP-61, was hit by aA over Quang Binh Province

Royal Air Force - Avro Shackleton AEW. 2 WR960 Dougal
Royal Air Force - Avro Shackleton AEW.2 WR960 Dougal, delivered to No.8 Squadron at RAF Lossiemouth on 8 June 1972 and retired in 1981

WW1 - Officer in the Roll of Honour - Major S. M. Bruce, Indian Cavalry (37th Lancers). Third son of the late Colonel Edward Bruce, 19th Lancers, " Fanes Horse, " and of Mrs

Lucknow, India - The Residency - Sir Henry Lawrence Monument
High cross Sir Henry Lawrence Memorial in The Residency, Lucknow - Sir Henry (1806-1857) acted heroically during the Siege of Lucknow in 1857

The Kings Stone Battle of Flodden memorial, Northumberland, England, marking the spot where James IV of Scotland was killed by Henry VIIIs English army. Unveiled by Sir George Douglas. Bart

Elephant Hunting, Upper Nile, Sudan, Africa
Local Tribesmen Elephant hunting, Upper Nile, Sudan, Africa Date: circa 1909

Construction of the Queensway Mersey Tunnel
The Queensway tunnel is a road tunnel under the River Mersey, between Liverpool and Birkenhead. Construction began in 1925

Khyber Pass - Dead Afghan Frontier Raider
The Khyber Pass - the mountain pass that links Pakistan and Afghanistan. Throughout history it has been an important trade route between Central Asia and South Asia and a strategic military location

Scotts Bunker, Polygon Wood, Belgium
The bunker is just behind the New Zealand National Memorial, though one needs to climb a small wall to visit it from there

The Burial of Lieutenant-General Sir John Moore (1761-1809), commander of the British forces during the Spanish War (1808-1809), killed in the Battle of Corunna on 16 January 1809

Charles Stewart Rolls (1877 - 1910), Welsh motoring and aviation pioneer. Co-founded of the Rolls-Royce car manufacturing firm with Henry Royce

Morane-Saulnier MS. 502 Criquet F-BEJQ
Morane-Saulnier MS.502 Criquet F-BEJQ (msn 670), equipped as a banner tug. This aircraft was used as a launch platform for Birdman Leo Valentin

North American YF-100A Super Sabre 52-5754 (msn 180-1), the first prototype F-100 with test pilot Joseph Walker posing in the cockpit, probably at Edwards Air Force Base

United States Navy Blue Angels - Grumman F11F-1 Tiger 141738, BLUE ANGELS number 6 at Burlington, Iowa. 1958: VF-156 with unit code NH, call-sign 105. 1965: Flew with the Blue Angels

United States Navy - Douglas A3D-1 Skywarrior 130356 (msn 9257), seen with JATO bottles fitted for trials. (Note: JATO became superfluous with development of the high-powered steam catapults in)

de Havilland DH. 110 WG240 2nd prototype
de Havilland DH.110 WG240 2nd prototype at the 1952 SBAC Farnborough air-show, (1-7 September). WG 240 was flown by test pilot John Derry in the air display from 1-5 September

Monument to soldiers and porters from the Congo who lost their lives fighting during the First World War, unveiled in the Congolese Capital Kinshasa in 1927 - sculptor: Marin

Lion mauling woman 1870
Performance in the Bowery Theatre in New York, were young woman Minnie Wells the Lion Queen, was doing her usual act, but on this fateful night, two lionesses sprang upon her

Martyrdom of Saint Thomas Becket
Becket had been a trusted friend of Henry II, King of England, but they became entangled in a quarrel over the rights of the Church

Austrians besiege Venice, 1849
Austrian troops besiege Venice during the Risorgimento Date: July 1849

Mosscraft MA. 1 G-AEST
Mosscraft MA.1 G-AEST at Pendeford (wolverhampton airport) for the 1949 Kings Cup air race, flown by W.H. Moss, with race number 26. The M.A.1 was flown in several U.K

Mustang at Duxford?
Cavalier F-51 Mustang I-BILL, owned and flown by Ormond Adare Haydon-Baillie. (Note: Haydon-Baillie and his passenger were killed whilst flying this aircraft)

Seeking to arrest the dread disease: ridding the infected district of creatures likely to carry plague-microbes. Illustrative diagram in The Illustrated London News showing how a major cull of rats

WW1 - Major V Ls Beckett - Yorkshire Regiment - Roll of Honour - The Sphere October 28th, 1916. Date: 1916

WW1 - Captain F J Arbery - Duke of Cornwalls Light Infantry - Roll of Honour - The Sphere December 22nd, 1917 Date: 1917

WW1 - Lieutenant R A Rail - Coldstream Guards - Roll of Honour - The Sphere, December 8th, 1917. Date: 1917

WW1 - Lieutenant Keith Eric Wood - 23rd London Regiment - Roll of Honour in The Graphic July 3rd, 1915. Date: 1915

Large hunted deer - Germany. Date: circa 1910s

China Martyrs - Missionaries killed during Boxer Rebellion
The " China Martyrs of 1900" is a term used by some Protestant Christians to refer to American and European missionaries and converts who were killed during the Boxer Rebellion

Turkey - Armenian Genocide, Adana - Young survivor
Turkey - Armenian Genocide, Adana - 4 year-old Ratoun Vanoudian, wounded by the bullet that killed her Grandmother. Her father and 18-month old brother were also killed

Rhinoceros Hunting, Bahr-el-Ghazal, South Sudan, Africa
The sad result of early 20th century Rhinoceros Hunting at Bahr-el-Ghazal, South Sudan, Africa. Date: circa 1909

Lion Shooting in Sudan, Africa
The sad result of Lion Hunting/Shooting in Sudan, Africa. Date: circa 1909

Irene - a play by Samuel Johnson
Irene is a Neoclassical tragedy written between 1726 and 1749 by Samuel Johnson. Johnsons main source for the story of Irene was Richard Knolless Generall Historie of the Turkes (1603)

Killed by a Falling Bell
A bell-ringer at Frisbourg (Switzerland) finds the bells toll for him.... Date: 1909

Memorial service for Francis & Rivy Grenfell
A memorial service at St. Peters Church, Eaton Square for Captain Francis Grenfell, V.C. and his twin brother Captain Riversdale (" Rivy" or Rivvy" ) Grenfell, V.C

Chechen Resitance fighter Abrek Zelimkhan killed
On 10th October 1905 Russian police shot into a crowd during a strike at an industrial plant in Grozny, Chechnya, killing 17 people

NFS (London Region) Aldwych V1 bombing attack, WW2
The aftermath of a V1 flying bomb attack on the Air Ministry in the Aldwych, that killed 48 people

Airdale Terrier and Bedlington Terrier, stand above a beaver they have killed Date: 20th century

Quentin Roosevelt lying beside his aircraft, France, WW1
Lieutenant Quentin Roosevelt (1897-1918), youngest son of the former President of the United States, lying beside his aircraft (a Nieuport 28)

Dongdang, Beijing, China - The Ketteler Memorial
A paifang or " memorial gate" - The Ketteler Memorial which was erected at the location where German career Diplomat Clemens August Freiherr von Ketteler (1853-1900)

Dead American troops, western front, WW1
Dead American troops on the western front during the First World War. Date: 28 May 1918

Senghenydd Colliery Disaster, Glamorgan, South Wales
Scene at the Senghenydd Colliery Disaster, near Caerphilly, Glamorgan, South Wales. There were 439 miners killed in total, making this the worst mining accident in the UK

Killed by German Bombs dropped in Poperinghe, Dec 1915
Killed by German Bombs dropped in Poperinghe, Dec. 1915. 386202 Acting Sergeant Herbert Gibson, Mm, 1St Northumbrian Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps. Born September 1889

WW2 - Russian Propaganda - Repelling Germans in the Baltic
WW2 - New Years greetings to the Baltic - a Soviet propaganda postcard from 1942 showing a Russian soldier finishing off an Invading German in the Baltic

Three schoolboys on desert island vanquish a rhinoceros
Three schoolboys on desert island bravely vanquish a rhinoceros using their makeshift bows and arrows. Date: 1898

WW1 - In Picardy - Tommy, the Vanquisher of the Hun
WW1 - In Picardy - The Noble British Tommy, the Vanquisher of the Hun... A British soldier stands over the body of a dead German soldier in a trench on the Western Front

Comic Postcard - Woman bemoans lack of male interest
Comic Postcard - Woman bemoans and mourns the loss of 500 men in a (fictional) disaster, not that it appears she is (unfortunately) a magnet for male interest! Date: circa 1910

Library of Congress Mural - Shakespeares Adonis
Washington DC, USA - Mural - Poetry Series by Henry Oliver Walker (1843-1929). Found in the Library of Congress, Thomas Jefferson Building. Shakespeares Adonis - slain by a wild boar. Date: 1920

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